Hybrid Senior Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Senior Engineering Manager leading multiple teams and initiatives at Trainline for better travel solutions. Focusing on engineering excellence and impactful leadership within the technology department.

Responsibilities

  • Lead multiple teams and their Engineering Managers, supporting them in career development through coaching and performance management
  • Own end-to-end delivery for your teams, ensuring projects are planned, executed, and delivered in a timely and high-quality manner
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science and business stakeholders to align technical delivery to business outcomes. Use domain expertise to guide teams toward high-impact opportunities.
  • Support technical direction and architecture without being deeply hands-on with code. Drive alignment in cross-team dependencies and ensure clarity on technical prioritisation, system interactions, and data flows between systems.
  • Champion engineering best practices across teams, promoting quality and fostering a culture of technical innovation
  • Drive operational excellence, ensuring that all teams under your leadership have robust monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes

Requirements

  • Have proven experience leading engineering teams and successfully delivering complex, multi-team initiatives
  • Have a strong record of developing people, building high-performing engineering teams, and growing future leaders
  • Can inspire trust and autonomy at all levels, building a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
  • Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and highly cross-functional environment
  • Possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and can influence at all levels of the organization
  • Lead confidently through ambiguity, creating clarity and momentum in complex or uncertain situations
  • Have a passion for driving technical and operational excellence

Benefits

  • Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance
  • Generous work from abroad policy
  • 2-for-1 share purchase plans
  • EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions
  • Extra festive time off
  • Excellent family-friendly benefits
  • Prioritise career growth with clear career paths
  • Transparent pay bands
  • Personal learning budgets
  • Regular learning days

Job title

Senior Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£110,000 - £125,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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